Soviet power invites foreign capitalists desiring to obtain concessions in Russia.

What are concessions? A contract between the state and a capitalist, who undertakes to establish or improve production (for example, the extraction and processing of timber, the extraction of coal, oil, ore, etc.), paying the state a share of the extracted product in return, and receiving the other share as profit.

Is Soviet power acting correctly, having driven out the Russian landowners and capitalists, and now inviting foreign ones? Yes, it is acting correctly, because if the workers' revolution in other countries has slowed down, then we are compelled to make certain sacrifices, only so as to achieve rapid, even immediate improvement in the situation of workers and peasants. The sacrifices consist in the fact that we shall hand over tens of millions of poods of valuable products to the capitalist over a period of years, while the improvement in the situation of workers and peasants consists in the fact that we shall immediately receive an additional quantity of oil, kerosene, salt, coal, agricultural implements, and so on. We have no right to refuse immediate improvement in the situation of workers and peasants, because this is necessary given our economic devastation, and the sacrifices indicated will not ruin us.

Is it not dangerous to invite capitalists, does this not mean developing capitalism? — Yes, it means developing capitalism, but this is not dangerous, because power remains in the hands of workers and peasants, and property

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